Zoo Aschersleben White Jaguars born

[Jordan-Jaguar97]

Zoo Aschersleben have announced the birth of two male 'White' Jaguars. They were born on the 19th January to Polly (A Black female Jaguar) and Mescal (A spotted male Jaguar). It is unknown if the pair will change color over the next few months...
Two rare white jaguar cubs born at zoo in Germany - AOL Travel UK

West Midlands interested?

 

[Chlidonias]

wow those look really interesting. Photos on the link btw!

 

[Arizona Docent]

I have a feeling they will change to normal color in a few months. My only reason for assuming this is that Wildlife World Zoo (Arizona, USA) had a pair of white leopards born to one normal parent and one black parent several years ago (just like these jaguar parents). By the time I got up there, when the cubs were only four or five months old, they were already normal colored. One was a bit lighter than the other, but certainly not white (even though the zoo still called them that).

I realize jaguars are not leopards, but they are in the same genus. It will definitely be interesting to see what happens, as you regulars know I am a cat fanatic. I kind of hope they do change to normal, because if they remain white I will have to fly to Germany to photograph them, which I cannot afford to do!

 

[IanRRobinson]

Really interesting photos, especially with a black mother!

 

[jbnbsn99]

I think the more amazing thing about this article is that AOL is still around.

 

[Arizona Docent]

Just as I suspected, they are now both normal colored. Look at the photo of them about halfway down the zoo website.

Zoo Aschersleben

 

[vogelcommando]

A Barbary monkey has been born at Aschersleben.

 

[vogelcommando]

Now a Black jaguar has been born at Aschersleben